17 year old Firefox feature request fixed

Re:17 year old Firefox feature request fixed by penteract on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @07:46PM (#26258370)

But the automatic single-click selection doesn't fill the X clipboard (meaning it isn't pasted by middle click), so when I want to copy it I have to triple click anyway. Since it looks like it's selected, I frequently forget to do so, which results in pasting something I didn't mean to.

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Re:17 year old Firefox feature request fixed by zipperhead on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:55PM (#26258818)

Holy crap, I just realized this is why I've pasted the text instead of URL all these years!

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Re:17 year old Firefox feature request fixed by namibj on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:56AM (#26260711)

You're referring to selection1, not the clipboard. There is (for me, on Arch) also a selection2, which I haven't investigated further.

Notably Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V operate on the clipboard, while selection and middle-click operate on (at least) selection1.

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Re:17 year old Firefox feature request fixed by jrochkind1 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @08:59AM (#26262760)

I single-click in address bar, which selects all (in Chrome), then I command-c shortcut to copy.

Which is my main use case for clicking in the location bar, copying the URL. So I appreciate that single-click selects all, so I can then copy with a keyboard shortcut.

I'm confused by your comment "when I want to copy it I have to triple-click anyway" -- I'm guessing you are on linux(?)... does triple-click or select alone automatically copy on Linux? (If select alone normally copies to clipboard, then I'd say it's a bug that it "looks selected" but hasn't copied to clipboard?)

This may be a thing where different behavior is appropriate for different OSes. Perhaps the FF devs who rejected the feature are also Linux users? I think FF wants to get market share beyond what can be achieved focusing on Linux users though.

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Re:17 year old Firefox feature request fixed by Triv888 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:59PM (#26259187)

Thats the only good thing about it... when the X clipboard has an error message in it that I want to search about, I dont need to worry about the search box being already full

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